The bowl is carved to the interior with a central flower on a leafy stem. The cavetto is decorated with a combed wave design and the bowl is covered all over in a crackled glaze of olive-green tone with the exception of the foot ring and base that are dressed in brown.
5⅜ in. (13.8 cm.) diam.

Private English collection, acquired by a Protestant missionary in Beijing in the 19th century, then by descent within the family.
Private Southeast Asian collection.

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The design of this bowl is known as luohua liushui that may be translated as 'fallen flower and floating stream'. A Yaozhou bowl with this design in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1996, p. 120, no. 106. A pair of Yaozhou bowls with the same motif from the Linyushanren Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: The Linyushanren Colelction, Part I, 2 December 2015, lot 2801 and a related bowl sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2016, lot 3121.